Quotes About Determination

She wasn't going to succeed in newspapers if she didn't ask the big questions when she could.

no matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.

Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

It's not the end of the world, Pea. Just pick up and keep going.

Gus knew himself. He knew how he wanted to be, and he had chosen in the critical hour not to accept being less.

Call had never noticed that he had a trick. The man never wasted five minutes appreciating himself; it would have meant losing five minutes off whatever job he had decided he wanted to get done that day.

His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.

It was a great annoyance to Billy that because of a long shit and a short nap he had lost his horse. But that was the truth of it and there was nothing he could do but limp along.

losing weight. When we finish eating this horse I

He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.

things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

Retreat, hell! We're just attacking in the opposite direction! - U.S. Marine Corps commander,  Changjin Reservoir, Korea

Louis's excitement was growing unbearable. Was this really what he had needed all along? Not the droud and wire, but the risk of his life to prove its value! Louis adjusted his flying belt and dropped over the railing.

Hindmost? A head turned back. Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

Have at you, Builders! You can't keep a science-fiction writer in Hell!

have precious little free will, he was saying. We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.

Don't say to become a millionaire, because if you were honest with yourself, you are probably not willing to do what it would really take to become a millionaire.)

Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy... [Owen Michaels, as quoted by daughter Bailey]

It's never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It's only about figuring out how to get there.

When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

But I knew the other part wasn't about me, so I decide not to make it about me now. It's never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It's only about figuring out how to get there.

What happened the day I met your father,' she said, 'is that I learned you ave to choose. For better or for worse. You have to choose what your life is going to look like.

only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.

That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.